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Automotive industry develops new guidance for measuring recycled content of automotive products

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The Suppliers Partnership for the Environment (SP) and the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) have published a new guidance document, “ Measuring Recycled Content of Automotive Products.”. R3: Recycled portion of purchased raw material, including materials recovered or generated by other industries.

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Luminar and Volvo Cars release of comprehensive lidar dataset; 250m range

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a provider of automotive lidar hardware and software technology, and Volvo Cars released a curated dataset called Cirrus containing unique long range lidar data from Volvo Cars’ test and data collection fleet. Cirrus has been annotated for eight object categories across the entire 250-meter lidar effective range.

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Lucid Air achieves industry-best 0.21 coefficient of drag

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As quick reference comparisons, both the GM EV1 and Volkswagen’s XL1 had drag coefficients of approximately 0.19; the Mercedes-Benz A-Class comes in at approximately 0.22; the Tesla Model 3 at 0.23. So naturally we intensively focused upon aerodynamics throughout the Lucid Air’s development.

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Qualcomm Technologies offering C-V2X chipset and reference design; first commercial solution

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The 9150 C-V2X chipset is designed to offer the industry enhanced V2X capabilities, including extended communication range, improved reliability and NLOS performance to expand support for safety and autonomous driving use cases. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.,

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More than 300 customers have ordered 10,000 Ford E-Transit electric vans

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Customers range from one-person van operations to municipalities including the City of Orlando to some of the nation’s largest service providers and retailers such as Walmart, which alone ordered more than 1,100 vans. The high-roof, extended wheelbase configuration, referred to as the “jumbo” model, is the most popular.

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Volkswagen deepens partnership with Gotion to industrialize battery cell production in Germany

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The goals of both partners are to industrialize the planned battery cell production at the Salzgitter site of Volkswagen Group Components and to develop first use cases of the Volkswagen unified cell concept for the volume segment.

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Umicore steps up solid-state battery technology development with investment in Blue Current

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The company refers to this combination of properties together as a “silicon elastic composite” battery. This also increases the driving range of EVs and speeds up charging, which are critical benefits for end-customers. In June 2022, Umicore and Idemitsu Kosan Co., In June 2022, Umicore and Idemitsu Kosan Co.,

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